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Tim Cook calls for a data-broker clearinghouse, a possible criminal case against Huawei, the largest leak of user credentials ever found in the wild, and why we probably need a Unix for machine learning.

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Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from Russia (Facebook Newsroom)

You Deserve Privacy Online. Here’s How You Could Actually Get It (Time)

I Mentored Mark Zuckerberg. I Loved Facebook. But I Can't Stay Silent About What's Happening. (Time)

Huawei Targeted in U.S. Criminal Probe for Alleged Theft of Trade Secrets (WSJ)

HACK BRIEF: AN ASTONISHING 773 MILLION RECORDS EXPOSED IN MONSTER BREACH (Wired)

AWS For Everyone: New clues emerge about Amazon’s secretive low-code/no-code project (GeekWire)

Former Facebook engineer picks up $15M for AI platform Spell (TechCrunch)

More high profile execs quit Snap, Apple’s in talks to get more Apple Watches in the hands of seniors, the state of the App Economy, and the Razr is coming back to herald in the era of the bendable phone.

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WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork (WSJ)

Apple is in talks with private Medicare plans about bringing its watch to at-risk seniors (CNBC)

App economy expected to be $120 billion in 2019 as small screen leads digital transformation efforts (ZDNet)

FACEBOOK'S '10 YEAR CHALLENGE' IS JUST A HARMLESS MEME—RIGHT? (Wired)

Madagascar has become a business outsourcing hotspot thanks to its super-fast internet (QZ Africa)

Return of the Razr—With a Foldable Screen and $1,500 Price (WSJ)

Netflix raises prices, maybe the Apple battery replacement WAS a big deal after all, cops can’t force you to unlock your phone with your face, and Amazon is driving its retail competitors into the arms of Microsoft.

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Netflix will raise prices for US subscribers, with its most popular plan going up to $13 per month (TechCrunch)

Apple Q1 Numbers: Missing Explanations (Monday Note)

ON APPLE’S $29 IPHONE BATTERY REPLACEMENT PROGRAM AND ITS ROLE IN THEIR EARNINGS MISS (Daring Fireball)

MongoDB Follow-up, AWS’ Incentives, Batteries: The iPhone’s Missing Miss (Stratechery)

Apple's 5G iPhone shift bogged down by Qualcomm chip battle (CNET)

German court throws out Qualcomm's latest patent case against Apple (Reuters)

Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules (Forbes)

Microsoft counters Amazon again with big Walgreens partnership, aiming to reshape healthcare (GeekWire)

Event sharing comes to stories, what this year’s CES says about where consumer tech is at the moment, and then a bunch of stories about what that means for the future in different ways, including wireless chips that suck power from the air, and the dilemma that voice assistants pose for the modern office.

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Facebook’s new Stories feature for event sharing actually sounds useful (The Verge)

CES 2019: A Show Report (Learn By Shipping/@stevesi)

SoundGuys: USB-C audio is dead (Android Authority)

Wiliot nabs $30M from Amazon, Avery Dennison, Samsung for a chip that runs on power from ambient radio frequencies (TechCrunch)

The rise of Alexa creates a dilemma for your open plan office (Wired)

A Picture Of An Egg Beat Kylie Jenner For The Most Liked Instagram Of All Time (BuzzFeed News)

The great Howard Lindzon and I discuss how Wall Street is thinking of Tech right now, what Apple's deal is and what the prospects are for those big tech IPOs coming down the pike.

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Motherboard shames the telecom companies into not selling us out, shareholders are suing Alphabet’s board, the government shutdown claims more tech victims, Apple says, “We can add more cameras also!” and the weekend longreads suggestions.

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I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone (Motherboard)

AT&T says it’ll stop selling your location data, amid calls for a federal investigation (Washington Post)

Google Board Sued for Hushing Claims of Executive Misconduct (Bloomberg)

Government shutdown: TLS certificates not renewed, many websites are down (ZDNet)

Apple Plans Three New iPhones This Year, Plays Catch-Up on Cameras (WSJ)

Amazon Developing Game Streaming Service (The Information)

The Smart Touch Weekend Longreads:

Demon Underneath: John DeLorean and the Invention of the Future (The Outline)

The Rise and Demise of RSS (Motherboard)

Pitchfork’s Ryan Schreiber shaped Internet music journalism and now leaves it behind (Los Angeles Times)

Inside look at modern web browser (part 1) (Developers.Google)

The Race to Diagnose Cancer With a Simple Blood Test (2069 - Medium)

Lasers vs. Microwaves: The Billion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Magnetic Storage (ieee Spectrum)

PREPARING FOR Y2038 (ALREADY?!) (blogs.akamai)

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We have a good idea when that foldable Samsung phone is coming, Google is actually close to a big legal win in Europe (for a change), the government shutdown might actually be affecting CES and why the “gig economy” might actually be a big nothingburger.

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Samsung to Show Off Its New Foldable Phone in February (WSJ)

Amazon Web Services calls MongoDB’s licensing bluff with DocumentDB, a new managed database (GeekWire)

Google Nears Win in Europe Over ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ (WSJ)

Google Only Has to Respect Your 'Right to Be Forgotten' in the EU, Court Says (Gizmodo)

2019 is already full of weird and wonderful monitors (The Verge)

Government shutdown halts FCC device approvals (Axios)

How Estimates of the Gig Economy Went Wrong (WSJ)

Now we know why Google has gone so big at CES: they want to put Assistant in everything, the first foldable phone arrives at CES, Twitter wants to show you only half of an NBA game, and Marc Zuckerberg wants to host his own version of a podcast, I guess. 

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GOOGLE’S PLAN TO TAKE ON ALEXA: NEW FEATURES, NEW DEVICES, AND A TROJAN HORSE (The Verge)

The world’s first foldable phone is charmingly awful (The Verge)

Twitter hopes you want to watch NBA games from a camera focused on just one player (Recode)

Zuckerberg's 2019 Challenge Post

VC funding in U.S. startups nears $100 billion in 2018, highest since dot-com era (GeekWire)

Venture Capital Funding Report 2018 (CBInsights)

Cable operators will fight off 5G with 10-gigabit cable modems (VentureBeat)

This pretax benefits startup is giving hourly workers a raise (Fast Company)

Are we in a smartphone recession, mooooaaaar tv new from CES, AT&T wants to make 5G confusing, and why WeWork is now, simply, We (company).

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Sorry, Samsung. Seems nobody is immune to peak smartphone (The Register)

Apple’s Errors (Stratechery)

Sony doubles down on 8K TVs and the entertainment to play on them (VentureBeat)

AT&T decides 4G is now “5G,” starts issuing icon-changing software updates (ArsTechnica)

Uber’s Confidential Documents Show Path to $90 Billion IPO (The Information)

Exclusive: WeWork rebrands to The We Company; CEO Neumann talks about revised SoftBank round (Fast Company)

Amazon's new ad strategy: Free samples based on what it knows about you (Axios)

Is Apple willing to sacrifice Apple TV for the greater subscription good, is Google Assistant is coming to feature phones, what is the use-case for a tv you can roll up into a box, and plenty more like that because it’s time to let the CES headlines rain over you.

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Apple is putting iTunes on Samsung TVs (The Verge)

Google Assistant will soon be on a billion devices, and feature phones are next (The Verge)

Everything you may have missed from Nvidia's CES keynote (Techspot)

HP Launches First-Ever AMD Chromebook (LaptopMag)

Withings undercuts Apple Watch, debuts $129 ECG monitoring smartwatch (ArsTechnica)

LG’s groundbreaking roll-up TV is going on sale this year (The Verge)

Keeping up with Netflix originals is basically a part-time job now (QZ)